76 brand of gasoline has a new marketing campaign going on -- Stop "honkaholism" -- about not using your car horn. There is a new billboard on my way to work with the slogan "Give a Hoot. Don't Toot." Several things about this Crack.Me.Up:

1) Does anyone remember the original '70s US Forrest Service mascot, Woodsy Owl, "Give a hoot, don't pollute"? Yeah, an oil company has just co-opted and bastardized it.

2) When I was a kid, "toot" was a popular euphemism for passing gas. So are they advising me to reduce my noise pollution or air pollution?

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"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." — Douglas Adams

I've seen that list before, so I could make it all the way through. Took me three tries, though, before I could do it the first time I saw it.

When I showed it to my boyfriend, with dinner on the line that he couldn't do it, there was no possible way I was giggling in the background to try to set him off. Nope. Nuh-uh. You can't prove a thing.